On behalf of the SCVMM product team and I am proud to announce the availability of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM.
Support for new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Dynamic Memory: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V supports...

Welcome to the New Year and to a series of blog postings that will cover how to define, configure and manage Virtual Networks in VMM 2012 SP1. Over the next few months, we plan to cover the following topics using the initial blog “getting started with...

In this blog, the second in our series, we will take a closer look at Logical Networks and review some of the key considerations, best practice recommendations and guidance for designing, implementing and managing this component of your Virtualized Network...

Welcome to the third installment of Network Virtualization in Virtual Machine Manager! This series will be an example-based walkthrough consisting of a few parts:
Part I: Configuration with VLAN Segregation
Part II: VLANs with Network...

Hi, I’m Eric Winner, Principal Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Just last week at MMS 2011 we announced the public beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta . Today, I’m going to provide a high-level overview of the features and in the...

The VMM team is proud to announce the public availability of the Release Candidate for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM)!
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Hello I am Dipti Goyal and I am a part of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Team. System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) Service Pack 1 can now be configured with SQL 2012 Availability Groups and I am summarizing that process below...

This is the second post in a series about transitioning from using VLANs for tenant segregation to Network Virtualization. This series will be an example-based walkthrough consisting of a few parts:
Part I: Configuration with VLAN Segregation
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On behalf of the whole System Center Virtual Machine Manager product team it is with great pleasure we’re announcing the public release availability of SCVMM 2012 Beta .
With this release you will be able to do:
Fabric Management
...

Just a quick note to let you know we updated the following Knowledge Base article this morning: KB2397711 - Recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Added is a recommendation to install the latest version of the System Center...

VMM 2008 R2 SP1 has been out for just over a week now and we’ve been very pleased with the excitement it’s been generating in the user community. One question that’s come up a lot in the last few days is which download package to use and if there...

Hi, I am Hilton Lange, SDE on the Virtual Machine Manager team. Today I want to share with you this blog on how cluster reserve calculations were entirely rewritten in VMM 2012. This rewrite has dramatically reduced the overly conservative...

My buddy Jonathan Jordan recently came across an interesting issue and wrote up a great solution, and since he’s out today I thought I’d take the liberty of posting it. If you ever find yourself in a position where you tried to remove a VM but it ended...

Posted on behalf of Carmen Summers Greetings All, This is Carmen Summers and I lead System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management Sustained Engineering. I wanted to take the time to announce we are making an addition to System Center 2012 SP1 Update...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where an attempt to perform a live migration on non-clustered virtual machines (shared nothing live migration) from one host to another will show a zero...

The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production as described...

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) Solution Accelerator is a Microsoft-supported, stand-alone solution for the IT pro or solution provider who wants to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V®-based virtual machines and...

Hi Everyone, this is Alvin Morales, Senior Support Escalation Engineer for System Center and I wanted to take a minute to talk about a potential issue with virtual switches in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1.
Recently I’ve come...

Have you ever run into a situation where a failed P2V or other job leaves you with a VM you cannot delete? I have and it usually ends up looking something like this:
Recently we’ve had a couple of cases come in where a VM was stuck in the Creating...

Microsoft SCVMM 2012 can manage Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) packages. In this blog post, we are going to explain what a Server App-V package means and how we can create Server App-V packages with Microsoft Server Application...

The VMM 2008 R2 SP1 RC has been available for about a week now and hopefully you’ve had a chance to download it. If not, jump over to Microsoft Connect and search for SCVMM and get your download started in the background while you read this walkthrough...

Hi, I am Nitin Bhat, Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to provide you with sample PowerShell scripts to leverage our investments made for networking and storage. These scripts would execute against the SCVMM 2012 Beta builds. The best...

Over the past few months I have been seeing a couple of these cases come by where when you try to add a host to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 it fails with the following message: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact...